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REFRIGERATOR CAR.

No.` 593,886. Patented Nov. 16,1897.

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No. 593,886. Patented Nov. 16,1897.

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REFRIQERAT'oR-CAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 593,886, dated November 16, 1897.

Application nea August 17, 1896.

Be it known that I, CHARLES S. HARDY, of San Diego, in the county of San Diego and State of California, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Refrigerator-Cars, 0f which the following is a specification.

My invention is an improvement in refrigerator-cars, and has for an object to provide a novel construction by which to utilize space in a refrigerator-car when same is-not in use as a refrigerator-car; and the invention con- In the construction shown I provide at each end of the car an ice box or receptacle A, which in general respects are somewhat similar to the end'ice-'box shown in my former patent, No. 509,806, dated November 28, 1893. As both these end boxes are alike in the floor construction the description of one will answer for both, while the same or a similar draft-ue to that claimed in my former patent, No. 509,805, dated November 28, 1893, as shown under letter X,is also employed,the specific functions of which draft-Hue will not be herein explained beyond the interdependence existing between it and the respective parts of the ice-receptacle which are hereinafter described.

The end wall is provided with upright The vertical or door-like walls of the icereceptacle are composed of two sections D D,

supported and constructed alike and rabbeted 'at their meeting edges at d and suitably packed at such edges to form a tight joint.

Serial No. 602,941. (No model.)-

' In pivoting these end wall-sections I provide them at their outer ends with upright beams D', having stud or shaft projections d' at their opposite ends journaled in bearings D2 in the floor and ceiling of the car at the opposite sides thereof. These Wall-sections D fold in toward the end of the car and against the sides thereof in the folded position of the ice receptacle and out against the end of the draft-'flue at their upper ends in adjusting the receptacle for use in holding ice. In such adjustment the wall-sections bear at their lower edges against a stop or sill-cleat E in the floor of the car. These sections D are composed of the cleats D3 and the planking D4, the latter only extending to the point where the floor C rests upon the cross cleat D5, while some of the cleats extend at cl3 to the floor and are connected by the base-bar D6, these extensions d3 bracing and supporting the wall-sections from the floor and at the same time permitting free circulation of air, as indicated by the arrows as shown in Fig. 1. At the left in Fig. 1 the ice-receptacle is shown open for use, while at the right in said igure the iioor is folded back against the side of the car and one of the wall-sections D is thrown partly back toward the side of thecar. When the wall-section is set against the side of the car, as shown in Fig. 2, it is held by a suitable latch F, ,which is shown as a springlatch secured to the under side of the floor of the ice-receptacle. room and leaves the interior of the car practically unobstructed. I make the iioorin two sections, so one-half of it may be operated at a time. lVhen the ice-receptacle is opened for use, the licor-cleats fit at their free ends between the cleats of the wall-sections and rest and are supported upon the cross-cleats D5.

Outside the hinged edges of the wall-sections I provide the upright cleats I-I, and the walls D swinginward and open'outward and are held, when open, firmly against the cleats H, the sill-cleat, and the end of the draft-flue by internal pressure received from the ice in the receptacle. Y Y

From the foregoing it will be seen that while the ice-receptacle operates efficiently as such it will when not in use fold clear out of the way of an ordinary non-'refrigerated cargo.

Ittakes up little or no IOO Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. An.ice-receptacle for refrigerator-cars comprising the bottom hinged at its lower edge to and turning up against the end of the car and the front wall composed of Vertical sections hinged vertically at their outer edges and swinging at their inner edges inwardtoward the end of the car and adapted when folded to hold the bottom in folded position substantially as shown and described.

2. In a car the ice-receptacle composed of the bottom hinged to the carand folding upward against the saine the front sections hinged at their outer edges on vertical axes at the opposite sides of the car and turning inward toward the end of the car and arranged when so folded to hold the bottom in folded position and the latches on the bottom by which to secure the front sections in folded posi-tion substantially as shown and described.

3. ln a refrigerator-car, the ice-receptacle comprising the bottom hinged at its lower end and turning to and against the end of lthe car, and the front sections forming walls of the ice-receptacle and means for holding the bottom in folded position, said front sections being hinged or pivoted at their outer ends on vertical axes at the opposite sides of the Car and swinging at their inner free ends in toward the end of the car and arranged when folded to rest in front of the folded bottoni and hold the latter from dropping and means for securing the front sections when so folded 3 substantially as shown and described.

CHARLES S. HARDY.

lVitnesses:

J. F. JAcoBY, GEO. N. OBRIEN. 

